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Posted by Mason Reno
Mason Reno
1,988 Points

I want to stay away from a CMS for this project. Point me in the right direction for creating a blog/store

Hey fellow awesome humans. I am creating a website for my own project where I'll be selling merchandise and blogging a little. I know there is a PHP video on here for starting your own web store. (this sounds stupid as I am tying but, will it suffice?)

I have the site made, whats the best way to create my own blogging platform & store?

thanks!

  • Mason

2 Answers

Adam Moore
Adam Moore
15,825 Points
Adam Moore
Adam Moore
15,825 Points

You could easily use PayPal as your shopping cart. Other than that FoxyCart is a good option. There are a ton of blogging options. I got tired of running Wordpress and am I the middle of using Tumblr and pulling in my blog posts via their api

Mason Reno
Mason Reno
1,988 Points

the tumblr thing could easily work for me, great idea.

I'll check out FoxyCart! Thanks Adam Moore

Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points
Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points

I saw this the other day and thought it was low overhead and a creative idea. Folks in Kuwait ringing the cash register using instagram to sell

http://kottke.org/13/07/kuwaits-booming-instagram-economy

Two examples http://instagram.com/mangabox and http://instagram.com/sheeps_sell

-twiz